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After last summer’s disastrous war against Russia, Georgia’s opposition leaders felt that patriotism should come before any attack on their president, Mikheil Saakashvili. But now the time for retribution is getting nearer…

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Sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese found himself face to face with one of the Boston Marathon bombers during a police operation following the attack. He recalls his story as depicted in the new film ‘Patriot's Day’, in which he’s…

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The city of Trabzon in northeastern Turkey sits where mountainous terrain meets the Black Sea and while its tough-living population is fiercely patriotic, not all agree on the region’s character. So just what does it mean…

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The conventional wisdom is that under the Obama administration, the transatlantic relationship will flourish anew, along with a substantial improvement of French-US relations. On 3 April, the 60th Anniversary Summit of Nato…

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We look at what’s ahead for the UK’s general election, discuss the links between baseball and patriotism in the US, get an update on France’s ongoing election race and learn why Jon Ossoff is making headlines.

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Are Russia and Turkey warming diplomatic relations? Plus: Justin Trudeau’s and Corey Lewandowski’s good week, hung parliaments around the world, a look at Nigel Farage’s political career and the pros and cons of patriotism…

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We ask what impact a trade war between the world’s two largest economies would have on the rest of us, find out why the Kremlin wants Russia’s army to become more patriotic and get the latest headlines from the Balkans.…

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Being a diplomat requires you to be proficient at wining and dining guests – and at no time will you be more inundated than the Christmas period. We visit three festive residences – that of the Czech ambassador to the UK…

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Unique in the French military for accepting overseas recruits, the French Foreign Legion offers refuge to those with a past to forget. Legionnaires fight under the Tricolore but it's loyalty to their fellow soldiers that's…

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The Russian president says his country wasn’t responsible for cyberattacks aimed at meddling in the US election but says “patriotically minded” Russians might have been. Samira Shackle, Phil Clark and Monocle 24’s Andrew…

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Within some states of the US there is an increasing sense of belligerent unrest among the right-wing – over half of polled Republicans believe the president is a Muslim who wants to diminish the nation’s sovereignty. Zed…